It’s not about the age of the person. If somebody is acting very erratically (for example, starting a physical fight over pickles) I’m inclined to assume that the individual in question likely has some underlying issues.

If you want to assume ‘entitled boomer’ that’s on you; to me that looks no better than when someone assumes ‘drug dealer’ when the dead person has other attributes, based on their particular prejudice.

Yeah it’s so dramatic, and since you can feel it grow colder and darker in the minutes leading up to it, I imagine that it must have been quite unsettling.

Murdoch media created Trump

They’ve bombed, blockaded and invaded other countries for less.

Remove skin. Slice. Cook on medium heat until most moisture has been drawn out. Add olive oil, salt, black pepper and tomato paste. Serve with rice and grilled meat.

As an Iranian, I think Trump is great for accelerating the demise of the American empire. As a human being, I think he’s a vile puddle of excrement that is giving the USA an unfairly rough fall.

I was convinced it was the proud achievement of some creepy humanoid robot startup, until I read your comment.

Got this one. No filter needed as the sunset was dim enough. We also got a really nice timelapse of the totality with a phone that we just stuck in the sand, but the image is too large to upload here.

Well articulated.

Just to fill in with a random fact: it’s normally the manufacturing country that gets the blame for greenhouse gas emissions. Many rich countries managed to “go green” by shutting down manufacturing, and dumping dirty production onto poorer countries.

Partial eclipse is cool, but total is qualitatively different. A shadow sweeps over you and you can now look at the sun, as a ring of light, the corona dancing around it. In contrast to auroras, it’s munch more vivid in person than in photos or videos. It’s absolutely breathtaking and I think more people would travel to see it if they realized.

Didn’t we literally just have a headline that 90%+ of US adults do not seek healthcare because they can’t afford it?

There’s something called Penrose’s law: the prison population plus mental care population is a constant. So a country that doesn’t take care of mental health needs to handle it as crime. Pretty simple when you think about it, but the dude had stats to back up his assertion.

Yep, it’s kind of wild people jump to calling her a “Super Karen” when he most likely explanation is that she has a psychotic episode.

I had a similar experience a few years back. Had a party at my place and dropped all the inebriated people off at their respective places. Due to logistics had to take the bicycle back. Took a shortcut that I usually don’t take, and found a man face down in a puddle, bleeding from the head. Got him on his feet and managed to get him into his bed and dress the wound. He had drunk himself sensless after his team lost at hockey. His wife was pissed.

Jim, it’s like robocalling but for the marketplace of ideas!

A disturbing wave of populism is sweeping over the 31 communes of Mars, as young Gavenitrians insist that it is clear that the creature is incapable of meaningful change, and thus, society must adapt instead. While analysts deem it unlikely that the brutal practice of capdle-larjing will actually be picked for Turbo Question Time soon, there are whispers that a concept for a new rehabilitation method will be introduced for consideration by the Broad Panel. It is rumoured that the novel treatment involves transplanting the transgressor’s brainwaves into a supercomputer and programatically subjecting its disembodied consciousness to a battery of procedurally generated painful and humiliating routines.

Ah yes, “healthcare over war”

Right up there with classic slogans such as “cake rather than crap” and “better a good night’s sleep than getting stabbed in the dick with a screwdriver”

True, she could probably have gotten citizenship right after Brexit, since she had lived in Sweden for 15 years at that point. The rules were pretty lax back then (and now of course Sweden is over-correcting, because that’s just what you do).

Did anyone claim that Iran has a lack of money? Iran’s problem is sanctions, and the economic isolation that it causes. What country bar North Korea is as isolated as Iran? Except for Iran it’s forced on them, not by choice. Since they can barely export, they need to control whatever foreign currency they have tightly.

Not saying their economic policies have always been great but all things considered they’ve navigated unique economic circumstances reasonably well. They’ve protected domestic industry and science, maintained a diversified economy, managed to keep up reasonably well with modern technology and are even state-of-the-art in some areas like sponge iron and construction.

I’m glad it worked out for you!

My favorite is when they say that I can’t oppose imperialism because some of the people being targets of wars of aggression may be bigots.